"Ek man jǫtna ár of borna, þás forðum mik fœdda hǫfðu; níu mank hęima, níu ívíði, mjǫtvið mæran fyr mold neðan.Ár vas …"

"Brœðr muno beriaz ok at bǫnomverða, muno systrungar sifiom spilla. Hart er í heimi, hórdómr mikill. Skeggǫld, skálmǫl…"

"Eldr er beztr með ýta sonum ok sólar sýn, heilyndi sitt, ef maðr hafa náir, án við löst at lifa."

"Skin-faxi is the skyey steed Who bears aloft the smiling day To all the regions of mankind: His the ever-shining mane…"

"Ymer's flesh produced the earth; Ymer's bones, its rocky ribs; Ymer's skull, the skyey vault; Ymer's teeth, the mount…"

"It was Atali, the daughter of Ymir, the frost-giant! To fields of the dead she comes, and shows herself to the dying!…"

"Call her Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that’s evil, Witch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blacka…"

"Be thou like the imperial basilisk, Killing thy foe with unapparent wounds! Gaze on oppression, till at that dread ri…"

"Those deserts of immeasurable sand, Whose age-collected fervours scarce allowed A bird to live, a blade of grass to s…"

"For see, my friend goes shaking and white; He eyes me as the basilisk: I have turned, it appears, his day to night, E…"